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In 2002 the Fourth International Sparta Seminar was held at Glasgow University; sixteen of the papers from that seminar are published here in this well-presented and authoritative study. Their emphasis is on the institutions of Sparta, the role of cult in other areas of life, the women of Sparta, Spartan politics and the construction of the Spartan image or `mirage'. Specific subjects include the motif of snatching in Spartan culture, suicide, the Hyakinthia festivals, female property ownership, the death of women, Thucydides' descripton of the massacre of 2,000 helots, Xenophon and modern perceptions of Sparta.

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Author
Thomas J. Figueira; contributors, Pierre Brulé ... [et al.]
Publisher
The Classical Press of Wales; Distributed in the U.S.A., The David Brown Book Co.; Classical Press of Wales
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9780954384579
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Social Science, Humanities

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